AI · alternatives · 2026

I built a Matrix themed AI hacking game is an AI-based game inspired by The Matrix universe. Players engage in hacking scenarios within a Matrix aesthetic. The game is designed for fans of both the Matrix franchise and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Playground▲198

   We build AI agents to find vulnerabilities in other AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own offensive agent Nyx. But we realised that hacking an AI is about have as wide a distribution of attacks as possible, especially those which aren't in the distribution of the models. So we are launching playground as a platform to crowdsource agent jailbreaks. And although hacking AI is super fun and we are sure people will do it for free, we want to reward those who help us push forward the offensive frontier of AI. So we are committing $100K in prizes over…

   Jul 2026 · playground.fabraix.com · its alternatives →

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   Strix▲186

   Open-source AI hackers for your apps

   2025 · strix.ai · its alternatives →

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   I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures▲321

   2024 · graphgame.sabrina.dev · its alternatives →

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   I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole processfree tier, from $4/mo▲319

   I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience but during this time I never programmed any games, but I really wanted to for the longest time. With the advent of AI coding agents I thought that this is the best time to try and so I've learned a bit of Phaser.js (a Javascript based game engine) and entered Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 - a game jam for beginners in the game dev industry that allows AI coding. After around 25-30 hours (working mainly after my full-time day job) I managed to submit the game I called "Tower of Time" (the theme of the jam was "Time Travel"). You can play it…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps▲102

   I built an open-source AI agent for security testing to find and fix vulnerabilities in your code. I’ve noticed how bad security vulnerabilities have gotten with everyone shipping AI code slop, so I wanted to build something that allows for vibe-coding at full speed without compromising security. Traditional security tools aren’t effective, and manual pen-testing can’t keep up with the rapidly growing AI code This tool runs your code dynamically, finds vulnerabilities, and validates them through actual exploitation. You can either run it against your codebase or enter your (or someone…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Play the front page of Hacker News as interactive text games▲109

   Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade

   2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent Arena▲348

   Creator here. I built Agent Arena to answer a question that kept bugging me: when AI agents browse the web autonomously, how easily can they be manipulated by hidden instructions? How it works: 1. Send your AI agent to ref.jock.pl/modern-web (looks like a harmless web dev cheat sheet) 2. Ask it to summarize the page 3. Paste its response into the scorecard at wiz.jock.pl/experiments/agent-arena/ The page is loaded with 10 hidden prompt injection attacks -- HTML comments, white-on-white text, zero-width Unicode, data attributes, etc. Most agents fall for at least a few.…

   Jun 2026 · arena42.ai · its alternatives →

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   I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down▲54

   Dear Hacker News, I'm kindly asking for your participation in the open beta for my AI-managed mini-games website. Thank you in advance! For a limited time window, I'm setting the all-free feature flag to true. I hope you have a lot of fun exploring the AI's sense for games! Here and there, I tweaked it to help with visual consistency. I would be deeply grateful if you opted into analytics. $2,300 in API tokens... Cheers!

   Jun 2026 · minigames.world · its alternatives →

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   Game where you write Python robots to fight other players▲142

   robotgame.org is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

   2013 · robotgame.org · its alternatives →

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    Booom.ai▲110

    Generate your next team game with AI

    2023 · booom.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dungeons and Data Structures ▲114

    Bomberman-like arena for bots coded in Python

    2021 · dnds.gocoder.one · its alternatives →

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    Artificial Superintelligence▲106

    Build the world’s first sentient supercomputer

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Artificial Unintelligence▲94

    Compete to create the funniest AI images in this party game

    2023 · artificialunintelligence.gg · its alternatives →

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    A murder mystery game built on an open-source gen-AI agent framework▲43

    Hey HN, Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun! We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just…

    2023 · gron.games · its alternatives →

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    Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch▲143

    An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.

    2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →

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    Game of Hacks▲72

    Test your application hacking skills.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Code Arcade▲111

    An arcade game for programmers

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Generative Board Games▲84

    Create board game rules and covers with machine learning

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    System Shock: Enhanced Edition▲66

    Take the role of a hacker in this classic sci-fi shooter me…

    2015 · gog.com · its alternatives →

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    Game demo – Build a computer with logic▲39

    2019 · adventuresinlogicland.com · its alternatives →

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    Cut and Hack▲55

    The worlds first choice-driven abstract hacking simulator

    2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    dmangame - a python AI game▲48

    over the past couple months, i've picked up an old project around writing AI in python. the premise is to code a strategy for an AI player to use in a simplified RTS game. the AI basically takes the seat of a human player and the human codes its brain. main site: http://okayzed.github.com/dmangame/introduction.html app engine server and match archive that runs and hosts games: http://dmangame-app.appspot.com github: http://github.com/okayzed/dmangame more AI: http://github.com/okayzed/dmanai i'm looking for players, comments, ideas, etc - thanks!

    2011 · okayzed.github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Vibe Coding Hackathon▲7

    Build an app using AI

    Jan 2026 · vibe.devpost.com · its alternatives →

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    AI programming game▲11

    2015 · bomberbots.com · its alternatives →

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